2023 Nobel Peace Prize
Mohammadi, a campaigner for women's rights, is serving a prison sentence in Tehran.
The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Narges Mohammadi. The prize was announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo on 6 October 2023.
The citation
The citation reads: "for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all".
The laureate
Narges Mohammadi was born in 1972 in Zanjan, Iran.
Why it matters
Mohammadi, a campaigner for women's rights, is serving a prison sentence in Tehran. The award follows the protests in Iran after the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody in 2022.
The prize
The prize is worth 11 million Swedish kronor. It will be presented in Oslo on 10 December, the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite whose will founded the prizes in 1895.
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